TY  - GEN
AU  - Isaacson, Walter  
TI  - Einstein: his life and universe
SN  - 9781847390547
U1  - 530.092 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London
PB  - Pocket Books
KW  - Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
KW  - Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 - Friends and associates
KW  - Unified field theories
KW  - Relativity - Physics - Biography
KW  - Physicists - Germany - Biography
N1  - Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 The light-beam rider 
Chapter 2 Childhood, 1879-1896 
Chapter 3 The Zurich Polytechnic, 1896-1900 
Chapter 4 The lovers, 1900-1904 
Chapter 5 The miracle year: quanta and molecules, 1905 
Chapter 6 Special relativity, 1905 
Chapter 7 The happiest thought, 1906-1909 
Chapter 8 The wandering professor, 1909-1914 
Chapter 9 General relativity, 1911-1915 
Chapter 10 Divorce, 1916-1919 
Chapter 11Einstein's universe, 1916-1919 
Chapter 12 Fame, 1919 
Chapter 13 The wandering Zionist, 1920-1921 
Chapter 14 Nobel laureate, 1921-1927 
Chapter 15 Unified field theories, 1923-1931 
Chapter 16 Turning fifty, 1929-1931 
Chapter 17 Einstein's God 
Chapter 18 The refugee, 1932-1933 
Chapter 19 America, 1933-1939 
Chapter 20 Quantum entanglement, 1935 
Chapter 21 The bomb, 1939-1945 
Chapter 22 One-worlder, 1945-1948 
Chapter 23 Landmark, 1948-1953 
Chapter 24 Red scare, 1951-1954 
Chapter 25 The end, 1955 

Epilogue: Einstein's brain and Einstein's mind. 


N2  - Einstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name a synonym for genius. He was a rebel and nonconformist from boyhood days. His character, creativity, and imagination were related, and they drove both his life and his science. In this marvellously clear and accessible narrative, Walter Isaacson explains how his mind worked and the mysteries of the universe that he discovered. Einstein's success came from questioning convention- al wisdom and marvelling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a worldview based on respect for free spirits and free individuals
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